"In this real-time rendered demo there are 1.3 billion polygons being shaded each second and it has about a 500x increase in typical gaming geometry levels thanks to the PolyMorph / tessellation engine in the Fermi GPUs. Tomasi said that each second of the demo consisted of about 80GB of data, quite a bit higher than the top speed limits of current PCI Express implementations; creating that much detail on the CPU would be nearly impossible to work with."

The new AMD 890GX chipset offers a faster Radeon HD 4290 core and incorporates an SB850 South Bridge that supports Serial ATA 6 Gbps. We will study the new chipset's features using two mainstream mainboards from ASUS and Gigabyte.